Mary and the Giant

Mary and the Giant
Mary and the Giant  
MaryAndTheGiant(1stEd).jpg
Cover of first edition (hardcover)
Author(s) Philip K. Dick
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Arbor House
Publication date 1987
Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages 230 pp
ISBN 0-877-95850-5
OCLC Number 14691945
Dewey Decimal 813/.54 19
LC Classification PS3554.I3 M3 1987

Mary and the Giant is an early, non-science fiction novel written by Philip K. Dick in the years between 1953 and 1955, but not published until 1987.

Contents

Plot introduction

In 1953, Joseph Schilling arrives in Pacific Park, Southern California. He establishes a small music shop, and later, Danny and Beth Coombes join him. Mary Ann Reynolds is also interviewed for a position at the shop, but backs off after Schilling touches her. After leaving home, Carleton Tweaney, an African-American lounge singer (and her lover) finds her a new home. However, Beth has already slept with Joseph, and now moves on to Carleton. Provoked by her affair, Danny tries to shoot Carleton, but instead dies himself. Carleton and Mary Anne break up, and she decides to work for Schilling after all, as well as becoming sexually involved with him, despite a forty year age difference. He helps her to rent and renovate her own apartment, but Mary Anne decides to live in a dilapidated African American neighbourhood instead. In an epilogue, she has married Paul Nitz, a pianist who works with Carleton.

The author himself once described the novel as: "A retelling of Mozart's Don Giovanni, with Schilling seduced and destroyed by a young woman." [1]

In Popular Culture

Mary & The Giant is the name of a fantastic Colonial Pop group from Columbia, Missouri.

Members:

Zac Fiddes- Vocals John Marino- Bass Jason Kock- Guitar Michael Schembre- Violin Justin Mayfield- Cajon


Visit their website: http://www.maryandthegiant.com

Footnotes

  1. ^ Rickman, Gregg (1984). Philip K. Dick: In His Own Words. 

References

Dick, Philip K. (1987). Mary and the Giant (2005 reissue ed.). Gollancz. ISBN 0575074663. 

See also

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